Word: leatherizing
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...first paragraph of "The Old Oaken Barrel" [about two Kentucky Senators who tasted a leather-headed tack in a barrel of bourbon-TIME, July 25] is slightly reminiscent of an anecdote used about 400 years ago in Don Quixote. Two of Sancho Panza's cousins, renowned for sensitive taste buds, were enjoying a barrel of wine. Although both pronounced the liquor excellent, one cousin noticed a slight taste of leather, while the other objected to a taste of iron. The other imbibers, less discerning than Sancho's kinsmen, ridiculed the two. On emptying the cask, however, the cousins...
...granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around 95°, businessmen rebelled against the tyranny of male fashions, shed suits and ties, pedaled about town in Lederhosen (leather shorts...
...nights on a day coach back to Pasadena. There he borrowed $250 from his father, rented space above a drugstore, hired a $20-a-week seamstress, and began turning out cheap ($1), soft-soled rehearsal shoes for the theater trade. Working a 16-hour daily grind, Joyce cut the leather soles at night; by day, while his seamstress sewed on the uppers, Joyce wore out his own shoes trying to sell the sandals...
...slight metallic taste." The other Senator took a dipperful, disagreed. "It's a slight leathery taste," he said. Laying a wager as to which was right, they kept dipping until the barrel was empty, then turned it over to see what was in it. Out dropped a leather-headed tack...
...first at a multiple execution, so frail, runty little Cockeye Dunn preceded Squint to the chair. Guards had just wheeled Cockeye's body into the adjoining autopsy room when Squint entered at 11:08 p.m. He looked calmly at the big oak chair with its eight black harness-leather straps, eased his fat hulk...